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It's Getting Harder to Send Bitcoin's Lightning Torch - Here's Why

An experiment designed to push the boundaries of crypto payments, bitcoin’s “Lightning Torch” has so far grown from a single transaction worth less than one-thousandth of a cent to a global game whose users have included Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. But in the process of passing the Lightning Torch from one person to another, each recipient adding value each time, users have brought to light a lesser-known problem with the lightning network itself. The problem is that when some users try to retrieve the torch, they find out they can’t. “#LNTrustChain was designed as a social experiment – but ... (full story)